I lived from 1785-1828.
I was from England, and am in the English category.
I influenced poet Edmund Blunden.
Lady Caroline Lamb was born in 1785, the only daughter of Lord Duncannon, and his wife Lady Henrietta, daughter to the first Earl Spencer. Her nickname as a child was 'Caro' which stayed with her throughout her life.
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Lamb is best known for the affair that she had with Lord George Gordon Byron, and has been quoted for referring to him as:
'... mad bad and dangerous to know.'
It perhaps was a phrase that could be attributed to herself as well. She was 27 when she met Byron in 1812, he was just 24 and just beginning to become quite known after publishing Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage. Their affair only lasted 4 or so months and Byron was the one that initiated the end of the affair though Lamb was at a displeasure over it. It is felt that she couldn't take the end of the affair lightly and tried pursuing Byron for years after; her family was in disappointment over her affair and pressured her husband at the time to divorce her.
It was at the end of her affair and during her disgruntled marriage that Lamb began writing her first novel Glenarvon which was published in 1816. She stated she wrote it in 'a heat of passion' however it seems that she actually wrote it quite earlier than she stated. It's said that it was really her apology to Byron and that Byron actually dismissed the apology as being of any concern.
Lamb wrote two more novels after that fiasco:
Graham Hamilton (1822) and
Ada Reiss (1823)
She and her husband finally ended their marriage in 1825 when Lamb was 40 years old; she died in 1828, with her husband near her side.
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